When Boomers were buying their first homes, they weren’t scraping off of mom and dad until age 30 ... they were out working ... sometimes 2 or 3 jobs just to SAVE UP (something the whiners don’t seem to know much about) to buy said home.
I bought my first home at age 21. I had graduated from UCSD at age 19. My dad loaned me $4,000 at 10% interest for the down payment and I repaid every penny. I purchased the 2nd house 5 years later and had saved the money necessary. I kept that one for 18 years before buying my current residence in Idaho in 2000. All paid off free and clear from the income I earned putting in 40 to 60 hours a week. There was no free lunch. I retired last year and intend to enjoy my free and clear home until I pass on.
Boomers also started with homes quite unlike what our parents had. We were thrilled to just be on our own. We had to do a lot of DIY and it wasn’t all fancy like what young people think they deserve nowadays. We also shouldered the separations and death that came with the Vietnam war and the draft.
I had to live with my Mom and Dad when my husband was drafted. I was pregnant and life was by far nothing like “selfish”.